Sooooo not anti-pervert and a generic publicity stunt. Haha please laugh etc. Don’t have anything against DDG but can only roll my eyes at something like this

I mean, I’m not gonna buy them, but I still enjoy the dad joke.

Sometimes corny is fun

You can hide your eyes with the anti light version of the anti pervert glasses!

Right. Anti-pervert glasses would at least require some lasers to meet the requisite qualifications.

Fair - it’s marketing.
But it’s good marketing - lambasts a stupid thing that people dislike to promote a product that is selling the opposite (privacy).
Good goal, and the marketing is clearly working here we are talking about it.

Also DDG browser is awesome on mobile and Windows. Blocks many ads and trackers, even on YT. Lightweight, wicked fast, offers not only private search but private AI chat.

Use DDG Because Gemini is SUPER creepy when it inserts personal info in unrelated questions. It keeps inserting my family details in answering unrelated questions now… Like a perv.

$39 is probably still a huge markup.

They’re barely making back the research costs of producing sunglasses without a lithium-polymer battery or a 12 megapixel CMOS camera.

THE ABOVE COMMENT IS SARCASM.

there’s no extra markup involved here for what is essentially a marketing thing.

they’re $35. which is also the price the ‘normal’ (not ‘collab’ edition) ones sell for direct on ka’s web site or at retailers like rei.

Is this now not not not the onion?

We have Ray-Ban glasses.

Yeah, I love my ray-bans but I don’t think I’ll be buying another pair as long as they are making pervert glasses. I feel kinda gross wearing them, afraid people will think they are the pervert kind… kinda like wearing a red hat

Ray-Ban is owned by Essilor-Luxottica, a truly evil conglomerate. Worse on Purpose has an excellent piece about them that is well worth everyoneʻs time to read.

I have only read the title but this just seems like… Normal glasses then?

Yep. Just normal, AliBaba sunglasses.

Probably more expensive than AliBaba. Which might or might not mean better quality.

I think it was like $25

knockaround.com/pages/warranty-policy

More expensive, still pretty cheap, and they have a lifetime warranty which is more than you’ll ever get from alibaba

Iʻve been buying Knockaround glasses for years. Theyʻre not owned by Essilor-Luxottica and have pretty great quality that has improved over the years. Only reason Iʻve had to buy new glasses from them was either due to theft or loss.

EDIT to make the conglomerateʻs name accurate and not sound like itʻs co-owned by Aragorn using his kingly name

Yeah... I think "anti pervert glasses" is a stretch for normal glasses. If anything, it makes you accidentally look like a pervert using pervert glasses to spy on people.

Sold out and I can’t seem to pre-order a pair for their next batch (maybe the next allotment is already sold out).

Oh well, my wallet wins this round.

I will let you know when they’re available again 😈

“No camera, no microphone, no AI, no battery, no electronics of any kind,” Knockaround boasts on its website. “Just a beautifully crafted pair of matte black sunglasses with a glossy DuckDuckGo logo, designed to block the sun and never send data to the cloud

lol

Ironically actual meta

Is DuckDuckGo going down the DBrand/Wendy’s model of irreverent, self aware marketing? I’m pretty tired of it being honest. Also, are they actually trying to make money from this? A satirical social media post would get the point across. But they’re actually selling these for some reason.

Some company just placed DDG logo on existing model of glasses and is selling them for exact same price as a joke. It’s not like DDG started manufacturing glasses specifically for this joke.

You make it sound like DDG aren’t involved at all. They very much are.

It’s not like DDG started manufacturing glasses specifically for this joke.

The reason is probably to garner as much brand awareness as possible bc the goal of marketing isn’t to just get a point across. If a company like DDG can gain a good amount of brand awareness by advertising and selling some relatively inexpensive sunglasses with the company logo on it then I personally see it as a net positive.

So you don’t have to go to twitter: knockaround.com/products/duckduckgo-paso-robles

Meanwhile, I recently got new prescription glasses (after wearing my previous pairs for way too long, BTW) and got some that have an IR-blocking coating that’s supposed to block face recognition cameras. Because that apparently needs to be a thing these days.

(I’m disappointed that these DuckDuckGo glasses don’t have a similar special coating. I like the company I got mine from, but I’d like to see more companies offering privacy-enhancing tech.)

What, no company names to help out a fella?

I didn’t want to give the appearance of shilling. But if you want to know, it’s www.zennioptical.com/id-guard

There are apparently also similar products from “Reflectacles” and “Vaydr,” but they were more expensive and/or not normal prescription glasses. The Zenni thing is just an extra coating you can add on to the glasses you would have otherwise bought anyway (which is how I found out about it; I didn’t know it existed beforehand).

Thanks! It’s wild that this is a thing now. It’s like we’re living in a cyberpunk dystopia!

So it’s not anti-pervert then. It’s just non-pervert.

Anti-pervert would be something like sunglasses that zap the pervert sunglasses’ cameras with lasers and damage the sensor. Maybe they don’t have to be so accurate.

Maybe a sort of anti pervert mesh network where gamma radiation is fired in the direction of whoever wears pervert glasses and eventually kills them with cancer.

It’s incredibly irresponsible and would have unintended consequences for otherwise innocent people but it would technically work so capitalism says ship it before China does!

There are infrared reflecting glasses that blind cameras.

Does this work for flock cameras?

Not sure. I assume they have a better IR filter than the small cameras used for the pervert glasses.

Although they may be IR sensitive because they also need to work at night though. Would need to see the technical specs.

The real move would be to include polarized lenses or a holographic coating to block infrared facial ID cameras like Flock. Because most sunglasses don’t block the infrared spectrum, meaning something like a Flock camera can see right through them.

These are basically just a dad joke, based on the fact that meta has made every other pair of sunglasses “anti-pervert sunglasses” by default.

Yeah, well said. I wish someone would sell and manufacture actual anti surveillance glasses

Are these what you are looking for?

www.reflectacles.com

Glasses without electronics? Then how will I see!?!

…but does it have electrolytes?

Brawdo’s got what plants crave.

“2. Only tech related news or articles.”

While the headline doesn’t discuss it, the article begins with “Meta has opened Pandora’s box with its AI-infused smart sunglasses. The pricy accessory has sparked a heated debate over privacy, with unsavory individuals abusing the eyewear’s easily-missed cameras to harass unsuspecting strangers in public — garnering the specs the distinctly unflattering nickname of “pervert glasses.””

“Zero AI, Cameras, or Even Electronics Whatsoever”. but i conceded that manufacturing a lens and a frame qualifies as technology as far as i’m concerned

You have the reading comprehension of a toddler. The article is not about a pair of glasses, it’s about a tech company’s response to AI and surveillance, and how another company is irresponsibly using those things.

you actually look like a toddler

How are glasses not technology?

how did you miss my post saying they are?

Is that post within this same thread? I genuinely cannot see it, sometimes boost hides some comments for some reason. My bad.

yes. and “technology” doesn’t even have the same definition for everyone, so don’t make too much of this thread, I’m just playing.

This is so stupid. Ddg thinks their users are dumb as fuck. I’m sure they’re right.

Unperverted Glasses

I wish DDG defaulted to their no ai search.

If they want to make silly little jokes about “the other guys and their ai” then maybe don’t use ai shit as your default search option on your own platform?